Statement by all Lichtenstein Parliament members to support European plan for Camp Ashraf

NCRI – On April 8, 2011, at the order of Prime Minister Nouri al-Maliki and on behalf of the Iranian regime, 2,500 Iraqi forces with armored vehicles attacked defenseless and unarmed Iranian dissidents at Camp Ashraf. In this attack 35 people including 8 women were killed and 350 people were wounded, a number of the dead were run over by the armored vehicles.

 

Iraqi forces and their weapons continue to remain inside the camp. Threats and the anti-human blockade continue. Due to lack of access to medical services, the wounded are in critical physical conditions.

In late April, the Iraqi government prevented a high ranking delegation dispatched by the European Parliament to Iraq from visiting Camp Ashraf.

Compulsory dislocation of 3,400 unarmed refugees is illegal and violates United Nation’s standards, international laws, and the international humanitarian law.

Any displacement of Camp Ashraf residents from this camp to another location is only setting the stage for a bloodbath and must be vehemently stopped.

On May 10, in Strasbourg, the delegation dispatched by the European Union to Iraq under leadership of Struan Stevenson presented a plan for solving the Ashraf issue.

We support the European plan and ask the Iraqi government to pave the way for resolution of the issue by carrying out the preconditions of this plan.

We ask Mr. Ban Ki-moon, the UN Secretary General, Mrs. Navi Pilay, High Commissioner of Human Rights, Baroness Ashton, European Union’s High Representative, and the international community to support Europe’s plan for Ashraf and act for realization of the following:

1. Taking on protection of Camp Ashraf by the UN and stationing of a UN observer team in Ashraf with the U.S. and EU’s backing.
2. Immediate withdrawal of Iraqi forces from Camp Ashraf and lifting of the siege plus unhindered access to medical services by the wounded and the ill.
3. Appointment of a special representative by the UN Security Council for investigating crimes committed on April 8 and prosecuting perpetrators of the crimes.